(Renee Boucher Ferguson) About half of the 8.500 banks that report quarterly earnings to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. do so with mistakes intact. The Washington-based FDIC, along with the Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, are trying to correct that p

(Richard Mansfield) Microsoft’s .NET technology rests on XML and employs it for Internet communication (including Web services), data storage, and many other purposes. .NET contains many functions that translate various kinds of objects—including database tables—to and from XML formats.

(Susan Harkins) When it comes to sharing, applications often act more like squabbling children than professional tools of the trade. Sometimes the solution is to find a third application that’s compatible to both formats. Unfortunately, there isn’t always a compatible format available. The good news

(Jirka Kosek) Many modern programming languages contain a special interface called reflection. Reflection can be used to programmatically read, modifying, and create code in a particular language. Because the main purpose of XSLT is to transform XML documents, and because a XSLT stylesheet is expres

(Roger L. Costello) This document describes a way of designing XML Schemas which enables data to be collected (and stored as XML) in an independent, distributed fashion, and with no restrictions on the XML vocabulary. The design pattern that is presented is especially useful for situations where:

(Sudipto Guha, Divesh Srivastava, H.V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas and Ting Yu) XML is widely recognized as the data interchange standard for tomorrow, because of its ability to represent data from a wide variety of sources. Hence, XML is likely to be the format through which data from multiple sources i

(Brian Schaffner) One of the benefits of XML over other data formats is that it closely resembles the structure of object data. Because much of today’s design and development is object-based, it’s no surprise that when the data is being passed around, it is often represented as XML. However, when it

Companies have started using XML to send application data to browsers and to business applications. XML is well suited for the interchange of data, since XML documents are self-describing, easily parsed and can represent complex data structures. Also, there is a wide variety of high-quality, inexpen

(Rich Seeley) XML Web services applications are ideal for the new AT&T Smartphones, as well as existing Pocket PCs and other mobile devices, contends Irwin Rodrigues, lead product manager for Microsoft’s mobile device development tools.

(David Becker) The last time Microsoft updated its Office productivity package, one of the company’s most reliable moneymakers and one of its most mature and predictable products, the big news was the disappearance of Clippy, the animated helper customers loved to hate. This time around, XML pla